Fascinating look at annual salaries in New York City from New York Magazine:
Who Makes How Much
An impertinent look at other people's paychecks.
Salary envy and its more loathsome twin, salary smugness, are the yin and yang of New York life, the engine that drives the city. But face it: Unless you're actually steaming open the mail, most of what you think you know about what your neighbor makes is little more than fantasy. That's where we come in. We've compiled a voluminous and eccentric list of hundreds of New Yorkers' salaries, from the hedge-funder who pulled down more than a billion last year to the Chinese-food deliveryman making four figures (plus tips). There's Calvin Klein and a guy who sells knockoffs on the street, a cantor and an imam, a first-year assistant district attorney and Sam Waterston, an honorary veteran of the D.A.'s office.
And they offer eight pages of examples sorted by category.
Bid'ness:
Edward Lampert - $1.02 billion - Manager, ESL Investments hedge fund
Chelsea Clinton - $120,000 - Consultant, McKinsey & Co.
Travis Harris - $3,120 Shoe-shiner, Wall Street
Chris (last name withheld) - $24,000 - Panhandler, Bleecker and Broadway
Art:
Glenn Lowry - $617,323 - Director, the Museum of Modern Art
Aristotle Stathatos - $21,159 - Security guard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Steven Kasher - $300,000 - Chelsea gallery owner
Andy Warhol - $16,226,741 - Deceased artist
Music:
50 Cent - $50 million - Rapper, hyphenate
Diddy - $36 million - Rapper, superhyphenate
Tom Stewart - $20,000 - Tower Records clerk
George M. - $16,800 - Street musician, Astor Place subway station
Gubb'mint:
Gregory Burke - $18,444 - Private first class, United States Army, stationed in Iraq
Kofi Annan - $341,094 - Secretary-general, United Nations
Michael Bloomberg - $1 - Mayor
These are just a few of the nuggets here -- they did a good job of juxtaposition and sampling. Fascinating stuff. Visited NYC a few times and it is fun to visit if you have a good place to stay but I could not imagine living here. Must be why we live on a farm...
